_Consecration of a Bishop._—The consecrator as for high mass: colour according to the day; each of the two assistant-bishops in rochet, cope, amice, stole, and mitra simplex. _Profession of a Nun._—As for high mass. _Coronation of a Sovereign._—As for high mass: colour according to day; each of the assistant-bishops in rochet, amice, white stole and cope, mitra simplex. In England all the bishops used to wear full pontificalia. _Laying the Foundation of a Church._—Rochet, amice, white stole and cope, mitra simplex, pastoral staff. _Consecration of a Church._—The same till the mass, then full pontificalia (white). _Reconciliation of a Church._—The same. _Consecration of the Holy Oil on Maunday Thursday._—Full (white) pontificalia, mitra pretiosa. _At a Synod held in a Cathedral Church._—Rochet, amice, red stole, red cope, mitra pretiosa. _Procession of Palms._—Alb, amice, purple stole, purple cope, mitra simplex. _Procession of Corpus Christi._—Alb, amice, stole, tunic, dalmatic, white cope; a mitra pretiosa borne behind. In England and in France red was the colour. _Rogation Days._—Alb, amice, purple stole, purple cope, mitra simplex. In occasional services, such as baptism, a surplice and stole are worn. At baptisms two stoles are used, one of violet, which is worn at the first part of the service, and the other of white, which is substituted for the first in the course of the office. This observance has a symbolical meaning; violet being the colour which typifies sin and penitence, and white being associated with ideas of purity, the change in the stole is emblematic of the regenerating change which the rite of baptism is supposed to work. A reversible stole, violet on one side and white on the other, is sometimes used for this service. In processions and benedictions at the altar (_i.e._, blessings of wax, images, etc.) the cope must be worn. In other benedictions stole and surplice are sufficient. The cope must also be worn at an absolution after a mass for the dead; the colour of the cope for such a service is black, the ministers lay aside their dalmatics, and when the celebrant assumes the cope he must lay aside his maniple. If for any reason a cope be not obtainable, these rites (benedictions, absolutions, etc.) must be performed in alb and crossed stole only, without chasuble or maniple. Should it be found necessary to celebrate high mass without the aid of a deacon or subdeacon, the Epistle is ordered to be sung by a lector vested in a surplice. We must now approach an important branch of this complex subject—the varieties in the colour of the vestments depending on the character of the day, in other words, the liturgical colours of the vestments.